Tobacco pipe



Jan. 16, 1940. BQ H, TYLER ToAcco PIPE Filedsept. 13, `1958 In Ven tor dinarily used be inexpensive;

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41 claim.

A dry-'smoke i's the desire of all pipe smokers. To attain this result the ilow of saliva intothe bowl oi' the pipe must be prevented: in other words, the tobacco must not become moistened I by saliva. When tobacco `becomes thus lmoistened in the bowl of the pipe, it `cannot be entirelyconsumed, and a wastage of tobacco results. It is furtherl maintained that a dry smoke carries less nicotine to the smokeri and therefore renders ex- 10 cessive smoking less injurious. l

`It is further essential that provision be made in i bacco holding chamber 'b and has a neckcin which pipe construction for easily cleanlngthe smokechannels of the pipe, since frequent cleaning is necessary. It is further desirable that pipesor- Many expedient cies have been resorted to in pipe construction in order `to `provide a dry-smoke. `Saliva retainers have been employed; also the smoke channelhas been so arranged as not lto ieadto the bowl :vdi:- rectly. Nevertheless, in thetobacco pipe" con; structions, as known 4tomezgthe objectives o! my invention have not previously been obtained. The construction excluding the now of saliva into the bowl of the pipe rendered the pipe more or less expensive; and, furthermore, was of such `a na'- ture as to render cleaning of the pipe more or less diicult.

The object of my invention is to prevent saliva entering the bowl of the pipe in order to assure a dry smoke. and also to prevent the collecting of saliva at any placein the pipe, in'order to prevent the pipe from becoming offensive in `odor and unclean, as results from permitting the collecting and .holding within the pipe of saliva saturated withtobacco fumes; 'I'he accomplish-l ment of both of thesey objectives is important. and, therefore, unless' the pipe is so constructed as to accomplish bothobjectives, it will soon be Furthermore, the construction 40 oi' the pipe should be such that itmay easily come offensive.

thoroughlycleaned. i

I attain my object in a tobacco pipe comprisingia bowl-piece having vertically disposed, converging branch smoke ducts o! equal bore, the

745 juncture of said "ducts connected by a cavity closed by va removable plug. in combination with a stemhaving a smoke duct of the same bore as such branch ducts. the Istem secured to the bowl by means effecting a direct and close contact between the bore "oi the stern andthe down- 'made that their longitudinal axes intersect and (Cl. rs1-21s) Fig. 1 is a side elevation'of a pipe embodying `my improvement:

,"piperand' Fig. 4 is a similar partial section with thev stem 'Hof the pipe removed, and illustrating further the mode ot cleaning 4the smoke channels of the bowlportion `of my pipe.

The bowl-piece a is provided with a central tois inserted the pipe stem d. The pipe stem has a smoke passageway or `channel e and the neck c 'oi' the bowl-piece a has a, smoke channel l. One l5 sideoi' the bowl-piecev is made thicker as at a' and this portion is provided with a smoke channel consisting of two straight branches a and h:

preferably closed by a short closure plug 1 adapti A Y ed to leave a space under itin the cavity i, which connects the smoke channel branches a and h. These branches being straight are easily drilled thru the'` thicker wall a' of the bowl-piece.

The channel branches a and h are preferably so extend thru the cavity i. Thus by removing the t plug jstiff pipe cleaning implements, indicated' byk in Fig.' 4, may be inserted in the channel branches a and h for cleaning the same. k' in Pig. 4` also indicates a pipe cleaning implement.' Without hunting myself to the exact details vof construction above described of my invention, I claim:

A tobacco pipe comprising a bowl having vertically disposed upwardly converging straight smoke ducts of equal bore, the juncture of said ducts lbeing connected by a cavity, a removable plug closing the cavity, one of said ducts leading to the bottom ofthe bowl of the pipe, and a removable stem having a `smoke duct of the same u 1 bore as said upward converging ducts, theA stem. being secured to the bowl by means eifecting a p direct and close contact. between the duct of the stem and one of the upwardly converging ducts oi' the bowl, so asto prevent any escapeV and colu lecting of saliva within the pipe.

` BENJAMIN H. TYLER. 

